Playing to a sold out crowd at The Joiners, a small independent venue with a capacity of 200, with this style of music, means literally shaking the foundations of the buildings either side with every song. A setlist of structural threat! Seriously though the audience literally made the ground move, that sprung floor, well I…
This band is fan favourite, singer Ollie Baxxter thanking all for coming to see the band, it was the audience thanking them. From Virginia, USA, the latest incarnation of Broadside now consisting of Ollie Baxxter on vocals, Pat Diaz on Bass guitar, Dom Reid, on guitar and Jeff Nichols on Drums. A pop-punk outfit well…
First on of three, with a crowd that obviously knew how good the support acts are and were not going to miss out. I cannot remember when The Joiners was that busy that early. Young Culture thanked those in attendance for turning out early to support but thanks wasn’t needed, this crowd was dialled in…
Dizzee Rascal is coming to my local city. Not the local mobile phone provider named 1741 capacity venue? But one of the smaller independent venues with a capacity of 520 …… say what??? Yes it’s an outstore, one of the the local record shops overseas the flow of artists promoting there albums through small venue…
It has been 34 years since I walked into Woolworths and bought ‘Unbelievable’ on CD single, followed quickly by ‘I Believe’ on CD single then Schubert Dip on Vinyl. My love for those songs has never wavered, they were at a perfect time at the start of the 90s. Support was from ‘The Dirt’ from…
Miles Kane and his not so One Man Band played a packed Engine Rooms in Southampton last night with support from The Royston Club. First time seeing The Royston Club and obvious from the outset there was a following in the crowd. No theatrics or showboating, no crowd banter, just straight to business with a…
Why The Fantastic Four? Ok maybe I’ve misappropriated/stole a phrase but simply put it was a one night, four bands. Four bands I felt lucky to see perform, four bands that could have been the headline act! Four bands now firmly in my Spotify playlists. No disrespect to the Clause who definitely did deserve to…
That’s twice now, could become a habit! King Nun + Support from Hypothetics & President Elect It’s Independent Music Week, a great effort every year to support local venues and I saw King Nun announced. The plan was to see them In Bournemouth on the Thursday but then last minute I saw that I’d missed…
This is a retrospective After starting this blog I was not going to go back over past gigs just look forward but as Depeche Mode played this week at the O2 and tour roughly every 4 years, plus I went and saw this tour already, I feel its appropriate, especially as I have not missed…
So I was headed to New York for a few days, time to see what’s on, I had three evenings there, two of which were already taken so it was all about the 12th of January, there are a good number of venues big and small covering a lot of genres but the first online…
